The stakes may be high for Ethan Hunt and his team in “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation,” but it was hardly impossible for the Tom Cruise pic to conquer the box office.
The fifth installment in the nearly 20-year-old film series has earned $56 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. Opening weekend audiences we

“A LEGO Brickumentary” is exactly what the title suggests, a documentary about the LEGO company and the little brick building toys that have been in the world since the late 1950s. According to the documentary, LEGO is the second biggest toy company in the world, and considering that it pretty much makes only one type of product, tha

The Clash and the Sex Pistols are perhaps the most iconic bands when it comes to early punk rock from the United Kingdom. But the pioneers of U.K. punk rock are far lesser known. That’s why Wes Orshoski, a one-time Orange County resident and former news reporter who once covered the city of Orange, decided to make a documentary.
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There’s some interesting talk in the cleverly satisfying script of “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation” about the element of luck. As in: How much is luck a factor in the success of Ethan Hunt and his IMF cohorts? After all, in the last movie they merely saved us from a nuclear holocaust. Was it talent, work, or dumb luck

There must be a way to pay tribute to ’80s comedy classics like “National Lampoon’s Vacation” without using the opportunity to traffic in archaic sexism, gender panic and off-color racial jokes. The reboot of the franchise, “Vacation,” does not take that chance. Instead, with a script lazily smeared with profa

“Ant-Man” crept past new opener “Pixels” to claim the top spot at the box office this weekend by an ant-sized margin. The Disney and Marvel superhero pic brought in $24.8 million over the weekend, bringing its domestic total to $106.1 million according to Rentrak estimates Sunday. “Pixels,” meanwhile,

Woody Allen has always been interested in man’s search for meaning in – a search he clearly sees as futile. Who can forget the young woman in “Play It Again, Sam” staring at a Jackson Pollock painting and seeing “the hideous lonely emptiness of existence, nothingness, the predicament of man forced to live in a barre

“The Stanford Prison Experiment” is a straightforward dramatization of the 1971 experiment of the same name. Nothing fancy here – director Kyle Patrick Alvarez and screenwriter Tim Talbott just tell the story and let the material unfold at a natural pace, because they know something that the audience soon figures out: These eve

There’s something incredibly satisfying about a well-executed high school film that hits all the right John Hughes-inspired sweet spots. “Paper Towns,” adapted from a novel by “The Fault in Our Stars” writer John Green, does just that, with a twist. Concerned with the miracles, myths and mysteries that come with the

“Pixels” had promise. The combination of director Chris Columbus – whose credits include the high-energy comedy “Mrs. Doubtfire” and the action-heavy “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” – and classic 1980s video games seemed like a match made in arcade heaven. But sloppy writing

The antichrist is a woman. This may sound like a belief held by misogynist men’s rights activists, but it’s also the thesis of the religious horror flick “The Vatican Tapes,” and a rather clumsily, haphazardly executed one at that. An entry into the demonic possession horror sub-genre, “The Exorcist” this is n

A flurry of haymakers in the form of boxing movie clichés, “Southpaw” was conceived as a loose remake of “The Champ” – Wallace Beery in 1931, Jon Voight in 1979 – tailored for Marshall Mathers, also known as Eminem. The rage-iest rap star on the planet took the initial meetings with director Antoine Fuq

For the first time in Pixar history, the hit-making animation studio will be releasing two movies in the same year. After this summer's June 19 box office hit "Inside Out" broke records with Pixar's second-best box office week

Marvel’s “Ant-Man” punched above its weight at the weekend box office, debuting with an estimated $58 million, while Amy Schumer’s “Trainwreck” also opened strongly with $30.2 million.
The result for “Ant-Man” didn’t match some of Marvel’s better known and brawnier properties. B

“Northern Limit Line” is a throwback to the days of Hollywood’s heroic and patriotic WWII films – except that it takes place in 2002. Based on real events – when the North Korean navy launched a surprise attack against South Korean patrol boats while much of South Korea was distracted with the World Cup takin